burden

carga, responsabilidad

Obligación difícil que alguien debe asumir o cumplir.

En inglés sencillo: A difficult duty that someone must accept or deal with.

• He carries the burden of supporting his family.
• We should share the burden of this work.
• The burden of proof rests with the company.

Cómo se usa: burden of something (The burden of caring for her parents falls on her.)

Sinónimos: responsibility, duty, onus

Expresiones frecuentes: bear the burden, share the burden, burden of proof

carga, peso

Algo que hace la vida difícil o causa preocupación.

En inglés sencillo: Something that makes life difficult or causes worry.

• The debt became a heavy burden.
• Her illness placed a burden on the whole family.
• Talking about his worries helped ease his burden.

Cómo se usa: burden on someone/something (These debts are a burden on the family.)

Sinónimos: weight, strain

Expresiones frecuentes: heavy burden, financial burden, burden on someone

carga

Objeto o conjunto de objetos pesados que alguien lleva.

En inglés sencillo: A heavy thing or group of things that someone carries.

• He carried a heavy burden.
• The donkey struggled under its burden.
• She put down her burden and rested.

Sinónimos: load, weight

Expresiones frecuentes: heavy burden, carry a burden, lay down a burden

capacidad de carga, tonelaje

Cantidad de mercancías que puede transportar un barco, expresada en peso.

En inglés sencillo: The amount of goods a ship can carry, measured by weight.

• The vessel was listed as two hundred tons burden.
• Ships of greater burden carried more grain.
• The record gives the burden of each merchant ship.

Sinónimos: carrying capacity, tonnage

Expresiones frecuentes: tons burden, ship of burden

carga

Cantidad fija de un producto que antiguamente se usaba para pesarlo o comerciar con él.

En inglés sencillo: An old fixed amount of a product, used when weighing or trading it.

• The merchant sold a burden of steel.
• Each burden had to be weighed before sale.
• The old account records three burdens of iron.

Expresiones frecuentes: burden of steel, one burden

sobrecargar, gravar

Imponer a alguien obligaciones, gastos o problemas difíciles de afrontar.

En inglés sencillo: To give someone duties, costs, or problems that are difficult to deal with.

• I do not want to burden you with my problems.
• High taxes burdened local businesses.
• The family is burdened with debt.

Cómo se usa: burden someone/something with something (The new rules burden small businesses with extra costs.)

Sinónimos: encumber, weigh down

Antónimos: relieve

Expresiones frecuentes: burden someone with, burden the economy

lastrar

Hacer que alguien o algo pese más y resulte difícil de mover.

En inglés sencillo: To make someone or something heavy or difficult to move.

• Heavy bags burdened the horse.
• Do not burden the cart with more boxes.
• She was burdened with so much luggage that she could barely walk.

Cómo se usa: burden someone/something with something (They burdened the donkey with heavy bags.)

Sinónimos: weigh down

Expresiones frecuentes: burden someone, burden with something

cargar

Poner una carga pesada o no deseada sobre alguien o algo.

En inglés sencillo: To put a heavy or unwanted load on someone or something.

• They burdened the mule with supplies.
• Workers burdened the cart with wet sand.
• Why burden his shoulders with another sack?

Cómo se usa: burden someone/something with something (They burdened the wagon with sacks of grain.)

Sinónimos: load

Expresiones frecuentes: burden something with, burden a cart